Elegy on the brave M'Kay.
Maidment, James,1793-1879,former owner.StEdNL: L.C.1268(127)
Glasgow : Printed by Carmichael & Graham,
Glasgow, June, 10th 1830.
The text begins: On account of the late unfortunate fight between the champion M'Kay, and Byrne, several great battles has been fought in the city of Glasgow, with the Byrneites, and the friends of M'Kay.
The verse begins: Has Auld King Geordie slipp'd awa', / Or Wellington, or Peel, or wha'.
Pasted on the verso of the broadside is a newspaper cutting describing the events in Edinburgh and Glasgow in the aftermath of the fight.
In two columns.
Bound in a volume carrying the inscription 'This collection is understood to have been formed by the late James Maidment and it has been added to by me. John A. Fairley' on first fly-leaf.
Elegiac poetry, English
Boxers